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John Skelton
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“There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God, Than from theyr children to spare the rod.”
John Skelton (1460–1529) first seen 1519 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Magnificence, A goodly interlude, line 1954 (written c. 1519, published c. 1533), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: He that spareth the rod hateth his son, Proverbs xiii. 24; They spa…
Also quoted by: Geoffrey Chaucer
“Gentle Paule, laie doune thy sweard, For Peter of Westminster hath shaven thy beard.”
John Skelton (1460–1529) first seen 1523 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Couplet on Wolsey's Dissolution of the Convocation at St Paul's (c. 1523), in criticism of Cardinal Wolsey's dissolution of convocation at St Paul's Cathedral, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Rev…
“What dreamest thou, drunkard, drowsy pate? Thy lust and liking is from thee gone; Thou blinkard blowboll, thou wakest too late.”
John Skelton (1460–1529) first seen 1527 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lullay, Lullay, Like a Child (1527)
“O noble Chaucer, whos pullisshyd eloquence Oure Englysshe rude so fresshely hath set out, That bounde ar we with all deu reverence, With all our strength that we can brynge about, To owe to yow our servyce, and more if we mowte! But what sholde I say? Ye wote what I entende, Whiche glad am to please and loth to offende”
John Skelton (1460–1529) said by 1529 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 421–427, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition, ed. John Scattergood (2015), p. 284
“Stedfast of thought, Wele made, wele wrought; Far may be sought Erst that ye can fynde So courteise, so kynde As mirry Margarete, This midsomer flowre, Jentyll as fawcoun Or hawke of the towre.”
John Skelton (1460–1529) first seen 1029 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 1029–1037, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition, ed. John Scattergood (2015), p. 300
“PLA ce bo! Who is there, who? Di le xi! Dame Margery, Fa, re, my, my. Wherefore and why, why? For the soul of Philip Sparrow That was late slain at Carrow, Among the Nunnės Black. For that sweet soulės sake, And for all sparrows' souls, Set in our bead-rolls, Pater noster qui, With an Ave Mari, And with the corner of a Creed, The more shall be your meed.”
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“When I remember again How my Philip was slain, Never half the pain Was between you twain, Pyramus and Thisbe, As then befell to me. I wept and I wailed, The tearės down hailed, But nothing it availed To call Philip again Whom Gib, our cat, hath slain.”
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“Maide, wydowe, or wyffe.”
John Skelton (1460–1529) said by 1529 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like Andromach, Hector's wife, Was weary of her life, When she had lost her joy, Noble Hector of Troy; In like manner alsó Increaseth my deadly woe, For my sparrow is go.”
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“Contynually I shall remember The mery moneth of September, With the ix day of the same, For then began our myrth and game. So that now I have devysed, And in my mynde I have comprised, Of the prowde Scot, kynge Jemmy, To write some lytell tragedy, For no maner consyderacyon Of any sorowfull lamentacyon, But for the specyall consolacyon Of all our royall Englysh nacyon.”
John Skelton (1460–1529) said by 1529 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 65–76, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition, ed. John Scattergood (2015), p. 102
“At Branxton More and Flodden hylles, Our Englysh bowes, our Englysh bylles, Agaynst you gave so sharpe a shower, That of Scotland ye lost the flower.”
John Skelton (1460–1529) said by 1529 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 131–134, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition, ed. John Scattergood (2015), p. 104
“How olde proverbys says, That byrd ys not honest That fylythe hys owne nest.”
John Skelton (1460–1529) said by 1529 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: III, lines 196–198, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition, ed. John Scattergood (2015), p. 113. Compare: "It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest", John Heywood, Proverbs (1546) part…
“Thy myrrour may be the devyllys ars.”
John Skelton (1460–1529) said by 1529 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: V, line 18, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition, ed. John Scattergood (2015), p. 114
“The honor of Englond I lernyd to spelle, In dygnyte roiall that doth excelle.”
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Recorded in: V, lines 95–96, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition, ed. John Scattergood (2015), p. 115
“For though my ryme be ragged, Tattered and jagged, Rudely rayne beaten, Rusty and moughte eaten, It hath in it some pyth.”
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“In the spight of his teeth.”
John Skelton (1460–1529) said by 1529 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 939. Compare: "In spite of my teeth", Thomas Middleton, A Trick to catch the Old One (1605), act i, scene 2.; Henry Fielding, Eurydice Hissed
Also quoted by: Geoffrey Chaucer
“He knew what is what.”
John Skelton (1460–1529) first seen 1106 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 1106. Compare: "He knew what ’s what", Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part i, canto i, line 149
Also quoted by: Geoffrey Chaucer
“By hoke ne by croke.”
John Skelton (1460–1529) first seen 1240 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 1240. Compare: "In hope her to attain by hook or crook", Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene, book iii, canto i, stanza 17
Also quoted by: Geoffrey Chaucer
“The wolfe from the dore.”
John Skelton (1460–1529) said by 1529 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 1531
Also quoted by: Geoffrey Chaucer
“He ruleth all the roste.”
John Skelton (1460–1529) said by 1529 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 201, criticism of Cardinal Wolsey, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition, ed. John Scattergood (2015), p. 248. Compare: "Rule the rost", John Heywood, Proverbs (1546) part i. chap. v…
Also quoted by: Geoffrey Chaucer
“Why come ye nat to court? To whyche court? To the kynges courte? Or to Hampton Court?”
John Skelton (1460–1529) said by 1529 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 401–404, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition, ed. John Scattergood (2015), p. 253
“The kynges courte Shulde have the excellence; But Hampton Court Hath the preemynence!”
John Skelton (1460–1529) said by 1529 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 406–409, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition, ed. John Scattergood (2015), p. 253
“Englande the flowre Of relucent honowre, In olde commemoration Most royall Englyssh nacion.”
John Skelton (1460–1529) first seen 1037 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 1037–1040, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition, ed. John Scattergood (2015), p. 267
“O ye wretched Scottes, Ye puaunt pyspottes, It shalbe your lottes To be knytte up with knottes Of halters and ropes About your traytours throtes.”
John Skelton (1460–1529) said by 1529 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 119–124, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition, ed. John Scattergood (2015), p. 318
“Twyt, Scot, go kepe thy den. Mell nat with Englyshe men. Thou dyd nothyng but barke At the castell of Warke.”
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Recorded in: Lines 145–148, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition, ed. John Scattergood (2015), p. 319
“Thou hast to lytell myght Agaynst Englande to fyght.”
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Recorded in: Lines 230–231, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition, ed. John Scattergood (2015), p. 321
“I saye, thou madde Marche hare, I wondre howe ye dare Open your janglyng jawes To prech in any clawes, Lyke pratynge poppyng dawes, Agaynst her excellence, Agaynst her reverence, Agaynst her preemynence, Agaynst her magnifycence, That never dyde offence.”
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Recorded in: Lines 35–44, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition, ed. John Scattergood (2015), p. 331
“Ye cobble and ye clout Holy scripture so about, That people are in great dout And feare leest they be out Of all good Christen order. Thus all thyng ye disorder Thorowe out every border.”
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Recorded in: Lines 222–228, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition, ed. John Scattergood (2015), p. 335
“If ye have reed de hyperdulia, Than ye know what betokeneth dulia: Than shall ye fynde it fyrme and stable, And to our faithe moche agreable, To worshyppe ymages of sayntes.”
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Recorded in: Lines 287–291, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition, ed. John Scattergood (2015), p. 336
“She is the violet, The daisy delectable, The columbine commendable, The jelofer amiable; For this most goodly flower, This blossom of fresh colour, So Jupiter me succour, She flourisheth new and new In beauty and virtue.”
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“For the soul of Philip Sparrow, That was late slain at Carrow Among the Nunnes Black, For that sweet soul’s sake And for all sparrows’ souls Set in our bead-rolls, Pater noster qui With an Ave Mari.”
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“With solace and gladness, Much mirth and no madness, All good and no badness; So joyously, So maidenly, So womanly, Her demeaning.”
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“Far may be sought Erst that ye can find So courteous, so kind, As Merry Margaret, This midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower.”
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